User:Jvallentine1211/Ashkenazi Jews

Frigyesi, Judit. “Scholarship on East European Jewish Music after the Holocaust.” Hungarian Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 209, Sept. 2014, pp. 150–163. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=98914352&site=ehost-live.

Schleifer, Eliyahu. “Current Trends of Liturgical Music in the Ashkenazi Synagogue.” The World of Music, vol. 37, no. 1, 1995, pp. 59–72. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43562849.

Ashkenazi Culture After the War
Ashkenazi Jews did not record their traditions or achievements by text, instead these traditions were passed down orally from one generation to the next. The desire to maintain pre-Holocaust traditions relating to Ashkenazi culture has been met with criticism by Jews in Eastern Europe. Reasoning for this could be related to the development of a new style of Jewish arts and culture developed by the Jews of Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, which in conjunction with the decimation of European Ashkenazi Jews and their culture by the Nazi regime made it easier to assimilate to the new style of ritual rather than try to repair the older traditions. This new style of tradition was referred to as the Mediterranean Style, and was noted for its simplicity and metaphorical rejuvenation of Jews abroad. This was intended to replace the galut traditions, which were more sorrowful in practice.